Aught, no. 15 (2006)
cut the price they offered
They thought of themselves
they logged, mined, or sought
plundering the river of its resources
pound-net men and fish-wheel owner
They forged
in the dual sense
both the sea and the land
a nature they knew through work
They lay out on
suffering hardships
From nature’s bounty
it was wealth in scarce
more distant peoples or dentalium
down river where related males lived
(prestige activities: slave raids)
The whites partially changed
There was a final geography of the human body
an exterior geography of signs
a flattened head
A dentalium shell
they can mark our bodies
A sustained note of bewilderment
the Indians triggered it
Many of them, indeed, had lost
suspended lights
result that was mad. Like many kind
sane from the inside.
Emerson’s railway back to nature
was a journey that most Americans
took new
a dream of liberation
the hope of transformation through
collective self-deceptions
dreams as transferred
fusion
original passion is
the brightness of the day
when the returning runs passed
should salmon then surrender
there was public controversy
the cost
new dams
additional dam
additional dams
three dams
before the dams
nine dams